Beth Tweddle Seeing Psychologist After 'The Jump' Accident

'I didn't panic until I flew back to the UK.'

Earlier this year, Beth was the second of seven celebrity contestants who had to pull out of the third series of the Channel 4 winter sports show, after suffering a serious accident.

The Olympic gymnast was left with two fractured vertebrae in her neck, which required urgent surgery, after falling on the slopes during training.

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Beth Tweddle

She’s now spoken out about the aftermath, telling ‘The One Show’: “It's hard to talk about about. I'm using a psychologist.

“I didn't panic at the time. It was when I flew back to the UK. I realised the journey I'd have to go on - the recovery phase, rehab, surgeons, physics. People couldn't realise how serious it was. I couldn't even deal with it.”

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Beth appeared on the third series of 'The Jump'

The most recent series of ‘The Jump’ notoriously saw almost half of its contestants having to pull out due to injury, the first of whom was former ‘Holby City’ actress Tina Hobley.